The Children's Hour
by Lillian Hellman
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Knopf, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo, mustard cloth with titles in brown, 115pp. First edition stated, author's first book. Very Good in like dustjacket: binding tight and square, corners and spine ends very lightly rubbed, p.o. signature on the front pastedown, text untoned. The jacket is not price-clipped, a little loss of cloth at the top corners, 1/4' of chipping at the top of the spine not affecting the print, 1' closed slit along the lower gutter not visible through the Brodart. An attractive copy overall in a rather scarce dustjacket.
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- Bookseller
- Dunaway Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 236596
- Title
- The Children's Hour
- Author
- Lillian Hellman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Date Published
- 1934
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About the Seller
Dunaway Books
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Saint Louis, Missouri
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Dunaway Books is an absolutely necessary stop for the bibliophile on the Grand South Grand strip. Housed within an airy, spacious former gallery, we carry an unparalleled selection of fine used, out of print and rare volumes. Upon stepping into our store, you will find aisle after aisle of scrupulously collected books treating a broad variety of subjects in depth. We keep new small-press titles by local authors or about local subjects, children's books and shelves of CDs for music lovers. There is something here for everyone. Whether you have a few hours or just a few minutes to while away, Dunaway Books is designed to be an intellectually and creatively stimulating place for the scholar, the collector, and the good old-fashioned voracious reader.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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